Introduction SharePoint is a great platform to implement business process automation. A common requirement in organizations is to route a form to different parties in the company to sign and send the form to next person, a normal approval process that exists in all versions of SharePoint and pretty easy to implement it for yourRead More

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Introduction In Part 1 of Azure Application Insights troubleshooting, we discussed normal steps in order to configure the Azure Application Insights and troubleshooting it. In this second blog post, we will focus on the troubleshooting of the Azure Application Insights. You can check the first part of this blog post here: http://www.sharepointjunkies.com/part-1-azure-application-insights-troubleshooting/ Troubleshooting Troubleshooting ApplicationRead More

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Introduction I was working with a client who wants to leverage an APM(Application Performance Management) solution in their Azure subscription. They were testing various APM tools in their sandbox solution to find the best one. They have tested AppDynamics, DynaTrace, Application Insights and many other tools. After thorough meetings and checking the demos and liveRead More

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Marvelous SharePoint Site collection migrator (MSSCM) is an open source project based on Microsoft Powershell to migrate SharePoint site collections between different environments: http://www.sharepointjunkies.com/marvelous-sharepoint-site-collection-migrator-msscm/ in this blog post I will discuss the concept of this project. We have two sets of files in the github repository for the project: https://github.com/farchide/MSSCM • Getxxx • Createxxx “Get”Read More

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today I am so excited to announce the first release of the Marvelous SharePoint site collection Migrator (MSSCM) Project. I am initiating and managing an open source project to migrate SharePoint site collections between different environments. These environments will be supported as the source and destination: SharePoint 2013 SharePoint 2016 SharePoint online For the first releaseRead More

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I was working with a client to configure their Azure Service Fabric cluster environment. For their sandbox environment, they wanted to use basic virtual machines to keep the monthly bill reasonable. We decided to use standard DS1 v2 machines for their nodes. After creating the service fabric environment and configuring it, they wanted to deployRead More

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Security topic is a broad land in IT realm and there are several dozen topics to cover. In a series of posts, I will discuss some areas of the security in Azure and how to create a secure cloud environment inside Microsoft Azure. In this blog post I will talk about the firewalls in Azure,Read More

This is the second part of the post in this series that I am talking about the implementation of a customized Service Fabric on Azure. The default functionality of the Microsoft Azure to create Service Fabric via portal does not allow you to use an existing virtual network or an internal load balancer. In thisRead More

In this post, I want to walk you through creating of a Service Fabric Cluster in Microsoft Azure, and make it a secure one. Moreover, we do not use the public IP address for the load balancer which is the default configuration of the Azure Portal when you are creating a Service Fabric. We willRead More

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Introduction ARM templates are a very convenient way to document your azure implementation. You can export the ARM template from your azure subscription based on each resource group and store them in your source control repository to keep track of the changes in your Azure environment. There are two methods in order to get theRead More

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About SJ

Farshid Mahdavipour, MCSE, PMP
SharePoint Junkies (SJ) is a place to share my thoughts and experience on Microsoft technologies with the emphasize on Azure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), SharePoint Server and related products including Project Server, SQL Server … Information Architecture and IT governance is the main focus of this blog and also I will examine these products from administration and development viewpoints.